Canticles’ Thalamus at Tree of Life chapel: by a boldness spirituality

Authors

  • Joaquim Félix de Carvalho Universidade Católica Portuguesa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/1677-1222.2018vol18i1a7

Keywords:

Hermeneutics. Spirituality. Performance. Mystic. Poetry.

Abstract

The Tree of Life chapel was awarded in 2011 with the ArchDaily prize to the best religious architecture and became known worldwide. In the construction of a hermeneutic path of access to the eucharistic thalamus, in whose creation I participated, it is possible to explore its multidimensional comprehension: the different symbolic layers; as memory and recreation imply themselves.  On that dialogue we have present artistic creations, the mystic literature (specially comments from Saint Theresa and sermons from Saint Bernard about Canticle of Canticles) and the contemporaneous poetry. Essayistic and meditative, the text challenges to a boldness spirituality, in Theresa’s sense, whose creative expression is instituted in the poetic renovation of spatiality, sculptural praxis, ritual performance and religious language.

Author Biography

Joaquim Félix de Carvalho, Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Doutor em Liturgia pelo Pontificio Ateneo Sant’Anselmo (Roma). Professor Auxiliar da Faculdade de Teologia da Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Membro do Centro de Investigação em Teologia e Estudos de Religião

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Published

2018-05-17

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 1 (2018): Arte é Liturgia?

Section

Seção Temática

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